You need to stop and go learn about INET_ATON. It converts those IP addresses to BIGINTS and speeds up your queries like you wouldn’t believe. I had an existing project that did not require any joins against my IPs, so I never bothered to do the conversion. I’m currently neck-deep in some new code that requires me to join against those same IPs, and INET_ATON took my queries from 120 seconds to under half a second to complete.

IF you’re installing OpenSUSE 11.2 AND you’re worried about driver support for your USB wireless adapter (specifically, for example, the 2Wire US-G-AT-02), just plug the thing in when you boot from the install disc. Amazingly enough, it installs all drivers and wrappers correctly and is ready to use on first boot.

Amazing. People make a face when I say I use OpenSUSE, but it very rarely disappoints.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, With no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.

One picture was taken from the front page of a local TV station, showing the early-evening traffic on Thursday. The other is a capture from one of the traffic cameras pointed at the same stretch of highway earlier this morning. If nothing else, we’re consistent.